YouTube and Gmail are down (Update: And they're back).

 

YouTube and Gmail are down (Update: And they're back)


Several major Google services are currently unavailable.

At the time of writing, Gmail and YouTube are returning an error message on access. We've tried the services from several geographic locations and gotten the same result. 

The same goes for numerous other Google services, including Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Drive and even Google Maps (though not all users in all locations are seeing the same outages). Mobile version of these apps aren't working as well. Google's desktop Search seems to be unaffected.  

Oddly enough, Google's Workspace Status Dashboard shows everything is fine at writing time. 

Downdetector, however, shows that basically all major Google services are currently experiencing serious issues. 

We'd contact Google about this issue to hear more but...as we've said, Gmail is down. Time to reflect on how dependent we all are on Google, and potentially take a breath of fresh air. 

UPDATE: Dec. 14, 2020, 1:37 p.m. CET Some Google services are getting back to normal, though we're still seeing error messages in Gmail. On its official YouTube channel on Twitter, Google acknowledged the issues and said there will be an update soon. 

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Comments

  1. guess i'm not reading any morning work emails :P lol

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    1. ;D report yourself to the nearest station for pretending ;D

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    2. yea, my boss came by and asked if i couldn't get to my email, i was like yup...el oh el

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    3. ask for a week off haha

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  2. It's working please be responsible in reporting

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    1. psst. You posted an hour after the article was posted. Possibly it wasn't working when they posted it?

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    2. or probably I have lost sense of time and space ;D

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  3. I guess now would be a good time for small time video platforms to promote themselves

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  4. And i thought it was only me who could not get into it

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  5. They're working for me.

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  6. And I thought it was my PC's fault!

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  7. A warning from the extraterrestrials... >.<

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  8. I knew it! Felt that they have been hacked. Little details on the screen. I'd say for six months or more.

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  9. It wasn't me !! It just said change your password so I did ..the next thing everything stopped ....

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  10. the power of google..

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  11. Thought it was me alone

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  12. Does this mean i can go back to work in a new year lol if anyone cares

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  13. Google Classroom is still working for us yet...

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  14. Works on old internet explorer

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  15. testing dark mode indeed

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  16. YT works without login

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  17. Mine is working fine

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  18. Not in incognito for YouTube

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  19. Must be Cyberpunk 2077 Promotion

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  20. use incognito mode, works for me

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